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Most inventions are an interpolation of three existing ideas. These systems are very good at that.
by SequoiaHope 7mo ago
Most inventions are an interpolation of three existing ideas. These systems are very good at that.
- mikkupikku 7mo agoMy take as well. Furthermore, most innovations come relatively shortly after their technological prerequisites have been met, so that suggests the "novelty space" that humans generally explore is a relatively narrow band around the current frontier. Just as humans can search through this space, so too should machines be capable of it. It's not an infinitely unbounded search which humans are guided through by some manner of mystic soul or other supernatural forces.
- fsflover 7mo agoI can't even find a good example of an invention that is not an interpolation.
- franktankbank 7mo agoThe inclined plane, the wheel, shall I keep going?
- Terretta 7mo agoStand on a fallen log on a hillside and you'll interpolate pretty hard.
- ryandvm 7mo agoIndeed. Every time someone complains that LLMs can't come up with anything new, I'm assaulted with the depressing remembrance that neither do I.